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Jamu (allow one week for shipment) - Massimo Ferrante - 18.99 On his second 'solo' recording, Ferrante explores again the Sicilian, Calabrian, Apulian and Campanian folk song-book, re-inventing it from a modern viewpoint, recontructing but never changing its heart. His guides are always the roots of the folk music and poetry of the region: Rosa Balistrieri, Otello Profazio, Ignazio Buttitta. On Jamu he is joined by a small, tight band of accordion, bass, guitars, tamburi and clarinet. W Jan D’L’Eiretto - Lou Dalfin - 17.99 Originally released in 1992 Listen Gibous, Bagase e Bandi - Lou Dalfin - 17.99 Originally released in 1995 Listen Radio Occitania Libra - Lou Dalfin and Sustraia - 17.99 Live concert recording originally released in 1997 Listen Ceremony - Omar Sosa and NDR Bigband - 17.99 A major new work by pianist-composer Omar Sosa, a big-band collaboration with composer-arranger-cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, Hamburg's 18-piece NDR Bigband, and the Omar Sosa Quartet, featuring Julio Barreto (drums), Childo Tomas (electric bass), and Marcos Ilukán (Afro-Cuban percussion) with Sosa on piano and marimba. Morelenbaum's amazing arrangements of selections from Sosa's repetoire give them new meaning. It also acknowledges the majesty of the legendary Afro-Cuban big bands of Frank "Machito" Grillo, Chico O'Farrill and Dizzy Gillespie, while extending those revered traditions in a contemporary salute to the expansive universe of global jazz. Highly Recommended! Herencia - Harold Lopez-Nussa Trio - 17.99 A remarkable young jazz trio led by a rising pianist with roots in Cuba and France. 24-year-old Harold López-Nussa was born into a Cuban musical dynasty - the nephew of famous pianist Ernan López-Nussa and the son of drummer Ruy López-Nussa. He is known for his piano work as part of Omara Portuondo's band, and the lead female singer of the Buena Vista Social Club makes a guest appearance on this recording. López-Nussa fronts a trio comprised of bassist Felipe Cabrera (a member of Gonzalo Rubalcaba's band) and a marvelous drummer, his younger brother Ruy Adrian López-Nussa. This gets my highest recommendation for anyone into jazz or Latin music of any kind. Fotheringay 2 - Fotheringay - 16.99 The 2nd release for UK folk-rock legends Fotheringay, including all members Sandy Denny, Pat Donaldson, Trevor Lucas, Gerry Conway, and Jerry Donahue. These are the original recordings from 1970. Fotheringay lasted less than a year, and released just one album. Now, the that debut album are joined by the eleven that would have constituted the follow-up. They broke up during the recording sessions for their second album but all the tapes survived. Thirty-eight years later, the surviving members have mixed all the material to finally complete the album. African Woodoo - Manu Dibango - 17.99 Unearthing the world music vaults, these tracks were recorded between 1971 and 1975 by Manu Dibango for cinema, television or advertising. They have never been released on disc. The official information is missing but Dibango recalls that his Parisian band then comprised Jacques Bolognesi, Ivan Julien, François Jeanneau and Slim Pezin. On the sides cut in New York, you will find prestigious guests like Buster Williams and Cedar Walton and Tony Williams. Ass, Mass and Pap - Djanbutu Thiossane - 15.99 Senegalese trio of singers Ass, Mass and Pap N'Diaye with a small ensemble Abrecaminos - Maria Salgado - 17.99 María Salgado returns to her Castillian roots, mixing them with Eastern and Sephardic elements and new compositions in a splendid work of delicate turns and elegant musical arrangements, embossed with the peacefulness of Bierzo. Polka Chicks - Polka Chicks - 17.99 Inspired by Finnish traditional polkas the band initially started playing together at the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department in 2004. During the years their repertoire has spread to include all sorts of traditional folk music as well as beautiful songs mostly written by the band’s musicians. Nowadays the repertoire consists of their own compositions and traditional folk music from all over Scandinavia. After the Big Rain - Avishai Cohen - 14.99 Alternately moody and joyous, richly atmospheric yet beat-driven, the album features trumpet player Avishai Cohen with some of his most esteemed peers: Lionel Loueke on guitar and vocals, Jason Lindner on keyboards, Omer Avital on bass and Daniel Freedman on drums and percussion. The music is texturally rich, full of heated improvisation, group interplay and the kind of funky, internationalist flavor for which Avishai has become known. Out of Time and Country - Rosenberg, Deslignes, Descamps, Gomar - 16.99 A collaboration between musicians from France and Sweden looking to find common ground in their repsective folk and medieval music traditions. Susanne Rosenberg: vocals; Christophe Deslignes: organetto; Jean-Lou Descamps: medieval fiddle, tambura; Thierry Gomar: percussion - Listen Mediterranea - Alla Francesca Trio - 17.99 16 medieval songs and dances. Ever since antiquity, the shores of the Mediterranean have assembled men and women who share a cultural heritage with multiple resonances. Brigitte Lesne, well-known to lovers of medieval music, and Carlo Rizzo, a specialist in the traditional songs of the Italian peninsula, create contrasts enhanced by the use of early instruments as well as those associated with the traditional repertory to produce a lively, colorful whole that sets the imagination vibrating. Brigitte Lesne: vocals, medieval harp, gothic harp, percussion; Pierre Hamon: recorders, bansuri, flutes, tambour, cornemuse; Carlo Rizzo: tammorra, tamburello, tambourines, vocals Vasen Street - Vasen - 13.99 The Swedish acoustic trio celebrates 20 years together with 16 tracks of all original new tunes. Includes "The Late Waltz", "Yoko", "Rob's Polska", "Absolute Swedish", more. Cote D'Ivoire: West African Crossroads - various (African Pearls) - 28.99 A fantastic double CD with 33 pearls recorded in Ivory Coast between 1966 and 1985. Artists include Ernesto Djédjé, Bailly Spinto and Amédée Pierre capture another aspect of the Golden Age of West African music. Francophonic, Vol. 2: 1980-1989 - Franco and TPOK Jazz - 23.99 2 CDs - Volume 2 of the stunning Stern's collection of the Congolese master's work. Essential! Steel Skies - Alistair Anderson - 19.99 Reissue of a classic Topic recording comprises a suite for traditional instruments led by his concertina and Northumbrian pipes, along with flutes, mandolins, and fiddles. Both Sides Then - Peter Bellamy - 19.99 A 2009 reissue of his traditional solo album from 1979, drawing upon English, Irish, and Appalachian influences. With The Watersons, Dave Swarbrick, and Louis Killen. Essential and highly recommended! Til trøst (Comfort me) - Iver Kleive and Aage Kvalbein - 18.99 Using the Steinway grand piano in the Kulturkirken Jakob and a cello, two of Norways greatest musicians have dug deep into the world of melancholy. Kvalbein and Kleive take the listener on a journey through musical gems from classical music, traditional folk songs and well-loved ballads. Spektakel - Spektakel - 16.99 This Danish ensemble plays seriously crooked music inspired by traditional folk music from the Nordic countries to the Balkans, medieval ballads, moonstruck poetry and with a pinch of rock’n’roll, performed on a hodgepodge of instruments including guitar, nyckelharpa, cello, recorder, mandolin, Hungarian hurdy-gurdy, Australian didgeridoo, double bass, violin and percussion. Last but not least, the vocals are strong, expressive and up front. Kryss - Færd, Dørge, Becker and Hjetland - 16.99 A Faroese-Danish band, with a bit of Swedish and Norwegian tossed in, Kryss is a cooperation of the band Færd (Jens Ulvsand, Eskil Romme and Peter Ulbrand), Pierre Dørge, Irene Becker and singer Jullie Hjetland. Based in the Faeroe islands, the sextet presents a combination of traditional songs, originals and odd global fusions like a Scandinavian/Kurdish crossover. Each song is a revelation and a surprise. Låtar - Swedish Folk Tunes - Johan Hedin and Gunnar Idenstam - 16.99 Back in stock: Gunnar Idenstam, organ and Johan Hedin, nyckelharpa, play tunes, reels and other dances in eighteenth-century late Baroque style, a waltz tinged with the Spanish Renaissance, a dance from Italy and a number of original compositions. A unique combination and a unique recording. (Hybrid CD/SACD) Kefir - Kefir Kvartet - 16.99 Unusual new music produced in a folk-rooted tradition, but a full out experiment in mixing unique new sounds with the old. Instruments include bouzouki (Greek and irish), guitar, percussion, violin, melodica, cittern and bass. Highly recommended for the adventurous ear. The Road That heals the Splintered Soul - Afro-Semitic Experience - 14.99 The Afro-Semitic Experience is a six piece group with a jazz and world music sound. Their music is a merging of the many elements of their cultures. Much of what they play has a strong spiritual center to it - their repertoire contains a heavy dose of music from the Jewish synagogue and the African-American church. This new work is an exploration of the deep well of myths, epics and stories that unite all cultures. Mahala Rai Banda - Mahala Rai Banda - 16.99 Shaped in the Gypsy ghettos around Bucharest, Mahala Rai Banda (literally Noble Band from the Ghetto), combines a surprising array of trends and styles. They incorporate both the sting and brass band traditions, the heady vocal styles and more. This is high-energy, real roots. Ghetto Blasters - Mahala Rai Banda - 17.99 A Balkan equivalent of the Memphis Horns with a kicking rhythm section combines power and finesse, groove and virtuosity. The musicians from Clejani form a taraf that is hot as coals. Guest singers such Sorin Constantin, Jony Iliev and Dan Armeanca, the king of the manea add an extra spice. The Dance of the Demon Daffodils - John Kirkpatrick - 16.99 Master of the squeezebox returns with a collection of original solo material, including "The Three Piece Suite", "The Henceforward Lover", "The Source of the Thames", "Shiner", 16 cuts in all. Aksak - Melodies of the south of Balkans - Aromates, Michèle Claude - 18.99 After its previous discs dedicated to the Arabo-Andalousian universe, the Aromates ensemble makes a visit to the Balkans. These Bulgarian, Macedonian and Greek melodies have been influenced by the Persian, Ottoman and European music. They are characterized by the so-called 'Aksak' or 'lame rhythms.' Gastonia Gallop: Cotton Mill Songs and Hillbilly Blues - various artists - 16.99 Piedmont Textile Workers on Record Gaston County, North Carolina 1927 - 1931 features 24 tracks of music traditions heard in the mill villages of Gaston County, North Carolina. El Dorado - 17 Hippies - 15.99 El Dorado perfectly demonstrates how a band matures over time. Having played together for 14 years, with 1,500 concerts in 20 countries, these musicians have found a unique style. Whether infl uenced by Balkan music, American rock, British pop, or film music, their compositions and sophisticated arrangements enter a new realm. Always filled with energy and razor-sharp interplay, 17 Hippies’ music still “boils down to plain dance music!” Regardless of age or nationality, everybody around the world seems to get it, as proven by the international success of this “Rock-The-World-Orchestra.” Musiker/Musician - Karl Skaarup with Kristian Bugge - 16.99 Traditional Danish folk music presented by an 85 year old master on the accordion, accompanied by fiddle Hemmeligheden / The Secret - Anja Praest Mikkelsen - 16.99 Clarinetist from Phonix, Anja Præst Mikkelsen, stands out front for the first time on her own recording, although she is joined by fellow band members and other great musicians form the new folk movement in Denmark: Sigurd Hockings' Nikolaj Busk, Jesper Vinther, Ditte Fromseier Mortensen, Andreas Tophøj, Jakob Holdensen, Peter Sejersen, Rikke Lundorff, Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Rasmus Henriksen, Jesper Falch and Jes Kroman. Ø - Serras - 16.99 The fourth Serras album is entitled "Ø" - the Danish word for island. The new CD was composed and recorded in the hall of an old hotel. The surroundings, the tranquility and a very relaxed mood have had a huge impact upon the music, far more subdued compared to earlier albums. But there is still music here with the powerful expression that has always been their trademark. The band is growing up, developing subtlty and grace along with power and energy. Sune Rahbek : Drums, Harald Haugaard : Fiddle, Sune Hånsbæk : Guitar, Mads Riishede : Bass, Hans Mydtskov : Saxophone, Torben Sminge : Sound engineer Trio Tinus - TrioTinus - 16.99 Traditional Danish dance music inspired by the legendary dance band Æ'Tinusser. The trio is Carl Erik Lundgaard: cromatic accordion, mouth organ; Anders Ringgaard: trombone and Vagn Dahl Hansen: piano. Midnat - Zenobia - 16.99 Zenobia is a Danish folktrio that plays well-known Danish folksongs and original compositions. With varied backgrounds in folk, jazz, popular song, Argentine tango, the trio of Louise Støjberg - vocal; Mette Kathrine Jensen - accordion; and Charlotte Støjberg - piano offer a unique and subtle new music. Hal and Nikolaj - Hal Parfitt-Murray and Nikolaj Busk - 16.99 14 tracks of decidedly "new folk" from Denmark, played by two great musicians on violin, viola, mandolin, five-string guitar, voice, feet, grand piano, harmonium and accordion The Definitive… 75th Anniversary Edition - Charley Patton - 24.99 3 CDs and 1 DVD. Compilation of 60 tracks, spotlighting his influences, contemporaries, and songs from Charley himself. Featuring Son House, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, others. The DVD, "Talkin' Patton", features interviews with musicians, musicologists, historians, and others. Also, shows new footage of Dockery's plantation where he was raised. Live - String Sisters - 15.99 Top fiddlers from the Celtic and Scandinavian traditions gather for a show at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival. Featuring Annbjorg Lien, Catriona MacDonald, Liz Carroll, Liz Knowles, Mairead ni Mhaonaigh, and Emma Hardelin. Solo, in various groupings, and sometimes backed by piano, bass, guitar or percussion. Highly recommended! Fandango! - Renato Borghetti - 17.99 Accordionist Borghetti is a local superstar in Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil. The musicial gaúcho has revised, adapted and modernized the regional music. he combines the sounds of the Argentinian pampa with central European, Italian and French elements into a modern mix of milonga, polka, TexMex and musette with Brazilian and global pop, jazz and tango, adapting each of those forms to his accordion. Artful, elegant and full of energy! Sange fra min vandring - Fin Alfred - temp out of stock-16.99 Songs from my Travels: 60 years of singing traditional Danish songs and ballads" is a wonderful presentation of classic folk songs from Denmark. In 2009 Fin Alfred is celebrating his 60th anniversary as a traditional singer by releasing his 20th album and by touring in Denmark with his son, guitarist Morten Alfred Høirup. They are accompanied on the CD by Anders Hofset (bass) and Claus Fossing (drums).

I never played too many posh dances - Scan Tester - 19.99 2 CD set, 55 track release from this traditional concertina player from the 1960s and early '70s. Classic material, essential listening and highly recommended Vital - Fernando Otero - 16.99 Argentine pianist, composer and bandleader Fernando Otero’s new album for World Village, Vital, is a meditative yet emotionally refractive set of eleven modern chamber music pieces, redolent of new-style tango, twentieth century atonality, sharp-edged downtown jazz, and other sounds Otero picked up at home and on his travels. The opening duet for piano and violin, "Nocturno," is a limping waltz that appears to depict an insomniac’s midnight musings; it leads seamlessly into two succeeding yet unrelated movements. "Siderata," scored for six players including a bandonéon, Argentina’s emblematic squeezebox, is an exercise in stillness, like the uneasy peace that so often precedes a difficult decision. "La Abundancia," another duet, is roundly, ripely melodic; but the wryly titled "Reforma Mental" is scored for eight players and from its opening keyboard arpeggios, depicts a dialogue between voices in conflict, with scampering piano runs periodically overwhelmed by groaning, overbearing horns. Between them, the violin and bandonéon achieve a small universe of sonic color on "Noche Illuminata," while "Fin de Revision" contradicts its title by continuing to mutate and evolve until the final, wheezing exhalation. Listen I Speak Fula - Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba - 14.99 Malian maestro Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and musical visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music. Bassekou's instrument, the ngoni, is a 'spike lute' and an ancestor of the banjo, sharing its taut-skinned drum body, percussive attack, and varied picking techniques. Since 2005, Bassekou has led Ngoni Ba, the first-ever group built around not one but four ngonis, all played by members of his family. Bassekou's longtime friend and booster Lucy Duran (a BBC radio host, record producer, and Mande music scholar) produced the band's debut, Segu Blue. These 11 tracks provide a star-studded tour of pan-Malian music, including collaborations with Toumani Diabate, griot vocal legend Kasse Mady Diabate, master of the horse-hair soku fiddle Zoumana Tereta, and guitar phenomenon Vieux Farka Toure. Listen Segu Blue (allow one week for shipment) - Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba - 15.99 The first solo album from the Malian ngoni player (orignally released in 2007). Ngoni is the Bambara name for an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa that is plucked with the thumb, much like a 5-stringed banjo.Ngoni Ba is Mali's first ngoni quartet and features artists Kassemady Diabate, Lobi Traore, Lassana Diabate and singer Zoumana Tereta. Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion in 70's Ghana - VA - 16.99 14 rare and unreleased tracks from Sweet Talks, African brothers, Black Star Sound, Ebo Taylor, and many others. Ghana Soundz is a painstakingly assembled collection of Afro-beat and Afro Funk, most of which has never been released outside of Africa and some of which is unreleased anywhere. This package will also appeal to collectors as it includes a full 16 page booklet highlighting the history of the Ghana recording industry and reproductions of original LP sleeves Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75 - VA - 16.99 Panama played host to many musicians from across the Caribbean to South America, laying down some of the best Latin, funk and calypso ever recorded. The Exciters, Victor Boa and Lord Cobra are heard once again. Panama occupies a unique place both geographically and culturally within Central America and the Caribbean. The CD presents a broad range of styles that run parallel to the development of soul and funk music in the US and the nascent salsa sound emerging from Miami, Cali and Baranquilla. The album covers heavy Latin descargas, raw calypsos, deep funk sounds and Caribbean soul, all unavailable since they were first issued in tiny numbers thirty years ago. All tracks have been carefully licensed and re-mastered and sound as vibrant and relevant today as the day they were released. CD l comes packed with in-depth liner notes, original cover scans and contemporary photos. Panama! 3 - Calypso Panameño, Guajira Jazz and Cumbia Típica on the Isthmus 1960–75 - VA - 16.99 "Volume Three is the best volume so far." says Charlie Gillet. Co-editors Roberto Gyemant and Miles Cleret are joined by Will "Quantic" Holland showcase more of the unique tropical music created in Panama in the fertile decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Panama is the thin, tropical bridge that connects North and South America, and is home to three million culturally-diverse people; its music is a soulful blend of Latin American, Caribbean, European and indigenous forms. From bilingual calypsos to guajira jazz, from tropical guarachas to cumbia tamboreras, Panamanian musicians fearlessly combined and brilliantly executed styles that reflected their multicultural environment during a turbulent time in the young country's history. This collection presents more of the golden age of Panamanian music and the music of the combos nacionales on rare recordings that have never been released outside the isthmus until now. I Can See The Gates Of Heaven… - Marta Sebestyen - 17.99 Well known for her important work with Muszikás, Hungarian singer Márta Sebestyén sings songs personally chosen from the extensive Hungarian folk and religious repertoire - songs that have close personal resonance for her and that reflect the proud cultural heritage of the Carpathians. The musicians accompanying her are two of Hungary’s finest - Balazs Dongo Sokolay on bagpipes, flutes, saxophone and tarogato and Matyas Bolya on lute and zither. In the informative sleeve notes, Sebestyén introduces the album and the background to each song, and leading Hungarian folklorist Ferenc Szabó provides further detail. Listen À L'ombre des Mots (CD and DVD) - Le Trio Joubran - 19.99 In The Shadow Of The Words features the CD and DVD recordings of Le Trio Joubran's September 19, 2008 concert at the Cultural Palace in Ramallah, Palestine, on the memorial day of Mahmoud Darwich, forty days after his death. The trio comments: “Mahmoud Darwich was as sensitive to the notes of our ouds as our ears and hearts to his poetry. We accompanied him in more than thirty shows in Europe and the Arab world. The last one was in France, in Arles, this beautiful city where we decided to begin a common work and where our music would accompany the variations of his voice, in strength and weakness, certainty and doubt, life and death...When he passed away, we decided to realize this project and the accompanying became a tribute…The first was in Ramallah, where his voice reached us, strong, dominant, and flew over our tears and the suffering of Palestine... and who better than Darwich can honour Darwich himself, absent and yet so present.” Listen Sweet Sweet Jamaica - Gilzene & The Blue Light Mento Band - 17.99 Debut from a group from remote areas of Jamaica has a sound that retains the unpolished quality of mento at its most genuine In the best mento tradition, the fifteen songs cover a range of topics, featuring folk favourites, suggestive ditties and songs examining the finer points of human relationships. Audiences may already be familiar with songs such as ‘Wings Of A Dove,’ once adapted in ska by Bob Marley, ‘Brown Girl In The Ring,’ a children’s ring game song adapted in disco by Boney M, ‘Dream Of Me,’ a big hit for Mac and Katie Kissoon in the mid-1970s, and the oft-versioned ‘Sly Mongoose,’ which references radical religious leader Alexander Bedward. Similarly, the group tackles mento classics such as the suggestive ‘Hold Him Joe,’ ‘Goosey’ (aka ‘Gungu Walk’) and ‘Water Your Garden’ with considerable aplomb, and there are also fine renditions of the ring game songs ‘Hill And Gully Rider’ and ‘Emmanuel Road,’ joined as a mini medley, as well as the heartbroken ‘Come Back Liza.’ ‘Jammin Tonight,’ which exhorts the listeners to join in the mento party, adapts a traditional number known as ‘You Safe,’ while in contrast, ‘10,000 Years’ adapts a bible hymn within the language and symbolism of the Rastafari faith. The originals are equally captivating: the ballad ‘Crying’ relates a riverside tale of seeking to give comfort in times of hardship and distress, while ‘Honey And Honeycomb’ has Lanford pledging eternal devotion to his sweetheart; ‘Sweet Sweet Jamaica’ naturally expresses the enduring appeal of the island for visitors. Perhaps most notable of all, the band’s adaptation of Toots and the Maytals’ much loved ‘Sweet And Dandy’ recasts the reggae hit as a mento country stomp, with none other than Toots himself contributing the vibrant harmonica. Listen A Night in Berlin - BalkanBeats - 18.99 Robert Soko has been throwing parties in Berlin since 1993. He was the first to coin the term BalkanBeats to try and define his mix of music from the Balkans. BalkanBeats are Serbian Gypsy brass and folk melodies reinterpreted, given electronic beats and blended with western styles such as ska and rock. In the recent past the phenomenon has caught on in other cities around the world where Balkan immigrants live. BalkanBeats parties rave all the way from Frankfurt and Vienna to New York and Melbourne. Robert grew up in Zenica, central Bosnia, listening to western music: rock and roll, punk and ska. In 1990 he left Bosnia for Berlin. He took a job as a taxi driver and started hanging out at the Arcanoa, a punk bar in Berlin's immigrant quarter Kreuzberg with his ex-pat friends. The Arcanoa became their second home. Soko put on his first parties there, playing his Yugo music for fifty German marks and beer for free. He celebrated socialist holidays: Tito's birthday, Day of Women. May First. The parties were a mix of irony and nostalgia and Soko was surprised to see how many people came, as nostalgia for Yugoslav socialism was not the 'in thing' in those days of growing Balkan nationalism. And yet the parties grew. Then something happened. After years of listening and playing western-derived rock, punk and ska, Soko found himself returning to his ethnic Balkan music roots, the roots he had rejected as a youth in Bosnia. This was largely due to two figures, Goran Bregovic and Emir Kusturica. Bregovic who revamped Balkan Gypsy melodies, making Balkan music palatable for a western audience, and Kusturica, for whose Gypsy inspired films Bregovic did the soundtracks. And Soko played new/old Balkan music. And people loved it. Women grooved to it. Guys pogoed to it. It was a sensation. The press took notice. From the Arcanoa, Soko moved onwards and upwards, first to the Mudd Club, then to the Lido, all the while spreading the party fever to other cities around Europe, to New York, L.A., South Africa and Brazil. The enhanced CD features a Slideshow, which takes the viewer through a BalkanBeats night in Berlin with music by Fanfare Ciocarlia. Listen tp Markovic Orchestar | Listen to dunklebunt Nha Sentimento - Cesaria Evora - 17.99 Cesaria ventures further afield than ever before, twisting Arabic musical traditions into bluesy, sinuous compositions from some of Cape Verde’s best songwriters. Paspanga - Burkina Electric - 18.99 Paspanga is the debut album from Burkina Electric, a group of musicians from Africa and Europe led by composer Lukas Ligeti, son of famed Hungarian composer. Their music draws from the tradition and rhythms of Burkina Faso while incorporating contemporary electronic elements. Ligeti explains Burkina Electric's formation by saying, "In the mid-90s, [we made] our first attempts at creating what could be called African electronica. On our travels to Burkina Faso we met the singer Maï Lingani and guitarist Wende Blass. Soon, we invited two dancers to help us draw audiences into our unusual rhythms and celebrate the continent's unseverable connection between music and dance." Devla - Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar - 18.99 Clad in a suave white suit, it's not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban Markovic with getting his homeland out of a recent jam: Markovic's spit-fire precision is rumored to have so seduced Bill Clinton that the saxophone playing president called off the further NATO bombing of Serbia. True or not, one thing is clear: Markovic and his son and prized protégé Marko are the bomb in Balkan brass dance music, harnessing the absolute flexibility of Miles Davis and the cool funk of Herb Alpert in the ultimate expression of their Southern Serbian Rroma roots. Their latest album as the Boban and Marko Markovic Orkestar, Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven, flies effortlessly between echoes of the Ottoman Empire and down-and-dirty grooves that would make P-Funk's jaws drop. Listen 1 | Listen 2 Var det du – var det deg? - Kelpie - 17.99 Kerstin Blodig (vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán) and Ian Melrose (guitar, low whistles, seljefløyte, vocals, bouzouki, percussion, programming) combine Celtic and Scandinavian roots in a modern context. They are joined by a few other musicians on hardangar fiddle, percussion and bass on various tracks. Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People (US customers only) - various - Topic records - 77.99 A phenomenal self-tribute to one of the world's great record labels. 7 CD set, 144 cuts recognizing Topic's presence as the oldest independent record label in Great Britain. Packaged in a 10" x 10" hardback book filled with full-color illustrated pages depicting the label's story since its inception in 1939 to present day, with complete recording history, essential recording profiles and artists. VERY highly recommended. Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People (outside of US) - various - Topic records - 97.99 A phenomenal self-tribute to one of the world's great record labels. 7 CD set, 144 cuts recognizing Topic's presence as the oldest independent record label in Great Britain. Packaged in a 10" x 10" hardback book filled with full-color illustrated pages depicting the label's story since its inception in 1939 to present day, with complete recording history, essential recording profiles and artists. VERY highly recommended. Sweden; Musical Traditions (allow one week for shipment) - Peter Hedlund - 11.99 Peter Hedlund is considered Sweden’s leading traditional player of the nyckelharpa, a keyed fiddle that was already in existence over 700 years ago. Played with a bow like a violin, the nyckelharpa also has keys like a hurdy-gurdy. This is a great bargain-priced introduction to his work. Music Of The Apennins - Stefano Valla, Dani Scurati - 16.99 Piffero, accordion and vocals, nothing more. This disc features songs and melodies for listening and dancing. Stéfano Valla and Daniele Scurati present the traditional repertoire for these two instruments. Night Train for Lovers and Thieves - Gypsy Groovz Orchestra - 18.99 At the invitation of Network records, many stars of the legendary Guca Festival got together for a special session. No sooner had they arrived in Guca, than they were all snowed in. For days there was no escape, but sufficient supplies of food and drink were on hand, so the music rolled on. With the assistance of Ekrem Sajdic, the leading authority and oldest band leader among the trumpet players of Guca, a magnificent cast of musicians was assembled featuring no less than seven orchestras. The centerpiece of the album is the 34-minute track "Hot Water Festival" wherein trumpets, tubas, clarinets and saxophones play totally free and exuberant solos to the ancient Roma melodies. The album is a unique document, with lots of photos and text by Guca festival producer Ilija Stankovic. The Broken Tongue - Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird - 18.99 Kahn and his band concoct a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk, kept together by Kahn's amazing abilities both as a songwriter and a performer; telling stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect. This 2009 release continues their explorations Out Of Sight - Kroke - 18.99 Kroke's new compositions, recorded with the original Trio setup, are charming and playful. Back to the roots? In a way. The loss of the drums means a reinforcement of viola, accordion and bass, coming to the fore (again), equally entitled to and responsible for both melody and rhythm. This 2009 release points out familiar and surprising new facets of Kroke 's musical universe, from Kukurba's oriental-influenced vocal improvisations ("Mecalakuku") to the frisky "Life As It Is" and the frivolous allure of "A Luftmentsch". Kroke's creative power, joining their tradions and their very own view on "Life as it is", is still going strong - and exploring. Glitter and Doom Live - Tom Waits - 16.99 17 selections hand-picked by Waits, from his 2008 tour: 'Trampled Rose', 'Get Behind the Mule', 'Singapore", 'Dirt In The Ground', more. With a typically strange, Waitsian 35-minute bonus disc encompassing an arrangement of between-song banter into a consecutive monologue entitled, 'Tom Tales'. Koder på snor - Valravn - 18.99 The title ("Codes on a string") is inspired by the science of 'string theory' - that all forces and particles in the universe are connected.This second album by the band features original compositions based on tradition. Faroese singer Anna Katrin Egilstrøð still leads with her melancholic and longing Nordic tone as a starting point, and the band (from Denmark, Swizterland and Ecuador, using violins, violas, hurdy-gurdy, percussion and keyboards) offers power and space in fair measure to support her vision and sound. Rosa Resolza - Andrea Parodi And Elena Ledda - 19.99 One of Parodi's final recordings, made just before his death in 2007, featuring Rita Marcotulli, Mauro Palmas, Belentes, Giancluca Corona, Francesco Sotgiu, Andrea Ruggeri, Silvano Lobina, Gigi Marras. Listen to some tracks here Soot - Boot - temp out of stock-18.99 Boot is Hållbus Totte Mattsson (mandora, Baroque lute, from hedningarna), Ola Bäckström (violin, bouzouki, well known fiddler and member of Swap) and Samuel Andersson (percussion, hurdy-gurdy, octave violin; from Hedningarna, Godrun), three well respected Swedish musicians who are familiar with tradition in a powerful new trio recording. Qin: Celestial Music for Qin and Xiao - Deng Hong and Chen Shasha - 18.99 Deng Hong plays a qin from the 13th century. The songs here typically symbolize the tranquillity achieved from closeness to nature and echo the themes of ancient poems. Chen Shasha accompanies on xiao. Includes excellent English notes Kringliga later / Twisted Tunes - Ulf Storling and Roland Keijser - 17.99 Tunes collected from the playing of Snickar Erik Olson, master fiddle of Ovanåker, Hälsingland, performed by Ulf Störling (fiddle) and Roland Keijser (clarinet). Julekvad - Åsne Valland Nordli - 19.99 The Norwegian singer performs Nordic folk songs and traditional European religious songs for the winter holiday and Christmas, with Joakim Friis-Holm (Celtic harp); Arve Henriksen (trumpet); Paolo Vinaccia (percussion) and Elin Ødegaard (vocal improvisation). Starry crowns in heaven - Skruk - 19.99 The Norwegian vocal group performs playful and exciting arrangements of American gospel and spirituals and has enlisted legendary conductor Samuel Carver Davenport from New Orleans to help refine and polish their performance of these songs. All the songs are for choir a cappella, and several arrangements are written by another legend of spirituals, Moses Hogan, a personal friend of Davenport. He writes in a dense and spectacular style, exploiting the many ways language can be used to help the music swing. En stjerne skinner i natt - Oslo Gospel Choir - 19.99 Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the choir recorded in Oslo Concert Hall in December last year, where they gave five concerts to packed houses. This recording radiates the intimate and inspiring Christmas spirit this choir is so renowned for.he recording offers highlights from the choirs repertoire performed at Christmas concerts across Norway over their 20 years, featuring such favourites as "Glade jul" (Holy Night), "Julekveldsvisa" (Ready for Christmas Eve), "O, helga natt" (O Holy Night), Go Tell It On The Mountain, "En stjerne skinner i natt" (A Star Is Shining Tonight), written by the choir conductor Tore W. Aas, and "Mariavise" (Marys Song), written by Aas and Erik Hillestad.

Art Vocal and Instrumental Art of the 19th Century - Aicha Redouane and Ensemble Al-Adwar - 16.99 Aïcha Redouane and the Ensemble Al-Adwar rediscover the art of wasla (a musical suite performed by a chamber orchestra - qanun zither, oud lute, kaman violin and riqq percussion), which reached its apogee in Cairo in the 19th century. It is a repertoire and a vocal technique that once seemed completely lost. Redouane, born in Morocco and raised in France, is a leading exponent of Arabic and Arabo-Andalusian music. Aïcha medorg1 Mille e una notte fà - Eugenio Bennato - 17.99 Musicians include Mimmo Epifani, Alfio Antico, Solis String Quartet and many many more. Jewish Cabaret in Exile - Philip V. Bohlman and New Budapest Orpheum Society - 19.99 Music By Kästner, Nick, Milner, Gebirtig, Eisler, Ellstein, Kreisler, Leopoldi, Katscher, Spoliansky, Schiffer, Ullmann, Tucholsky, Holländer. Includes extensive extensive essay, annotations, and bibliography. Performers: Stewart Miller, bass; Ilya Levinson, piano; Iordanka Kissiova, violin; Hank Tausend, drums; New Budapest Orpheum Society; Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano; Stewart Figa, baritone Panama! 2 - Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical and Calypso Funk on the Isthmus 1967–77 - VA - 16.99 The Panama Canal was built by a huge workforce from all over the Caribbean and South America, each nationality bringing a taste of their culture and music to make up the hugely diverse nation that exists today. After soaking up the varied influences of Panama's diverse population, the dancefloors and bars spat out a mix that took in the raw vallenato of neighboring Colombia, the soul and funk of America, the calypso of Trinidad and the son and rumba of Cuba, all combined and re-styled in a uniquely Panamanian fashion. Writer and compiler Roberto Ernesto Gyemant travelled throughout the country in search of elusive records and reclusive musicians, tracking down hopeful tips and half-remembered names and addresses. Two years of digging through dusty warehouses and old radio stations in search of crackly records and dusty photos led to an exhaustive look at the musical culture of this fascinating country. Includes a full-color, 24-page booklet with nuggets of vital information, untold stories behind the music, Opa Hey! - Kottarashky - 18.99 Kottarashky is a 21st century digital master musician with his hands sunk deep in the past - vintage Balkan field recordings, classic jazz and blues, psychedelic sounds, club beats and extraordinary, archetypal Gypsy voices, guttural shouts and lyrical laments are all molded and thrown into new shapes. The songs of his debut album “Opa Hey!” sound like tales told by a people who have all the time in the world: time to contemplate, enjoy, engage and dream; to take pleasure in unexpected twists and turns; to be inspired by the details and vividness of marginal existence. Kottarashky is an architect by vocation, which perhaps explains the palpable sense of place in his music. Summer trips to small villages and the marginal regions of Bulgaria were key source of inspiration for the album, and his music samples a broad palette of sources and influences - enigmatic field recordings by artists unknown alongside Boris Kovac, Les Yeux Noir, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Jony Iliev and compelling Hungarian singer Mitsou. The resulting digital pick-and-mix hits you like a panoramic puzzle of sounds collected and put together from a night's walk through the streets of Sofia. It is an ethno-music born of a city lacking cultural identity that is torn between contemporary European globalism, Balkan provincialism and a living if largely forgotten folk tradition. It's a music inspired by that environment but also in reaction to it, a journey down roads less travelled, through the Bulgarian backwoods and back via the laptop to the 21st century. Listen! Sonates orientales - Wassim Soubra - 19.99 Sonates orientales is an album of instrumental music performed by Lebanese pianist and composer Wassim Soubra. Is it classical music? Jazz? World music? No matter what, it deserves further investigation, for Soubra writes using the grammar of classical music (harmonies, counterpoint) combined with the sounds of his childhood, and the result is a western composition that tells an eastern, Lebanese story. The Kings of Benin: Urban Groove 1972-80 - T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - coming soon Originally released 2005, reissued 2009. From the Republic of Benin, West Africa, T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo is one of Africa's least-known big-bands outside of their home country. Here is a collection that reflects their many poly-rhythmic moods. A mixture of hard Afro-Funk, driving Afrobeat, deep Afro-Latin and Cuban grooves all with a unique flavor that ruled the dance-floors of 70's urban Benin. Contained here are never before heard tracks re-mastered and available for the first time outside of Africa since being originally issued on small vinyl presses that have long become extinct. Lila - Sidh - 17.99 Sidh presents a hybrid between the traditional sounds of the Gnawa and the rhythms and melodies of the Mediterranean. Young Italian-based Algerian musician Sidh (vocals, guembri, bendir, qraqueb) is joined by Riccardo Manzi (guitar and bouzouki), Renato Vecchio (saxophones, flute, duduk), Zaki Bedaida (acoustic guitar and vocals), Youcef Grim (percussion) and a vocal trio. Departe De Casa - Formatia Valea Mare - coming soon- temp out of stock-16.99 This group of Roma (Gypsy) musicians in France (flugelhorn, trumpet, e flat clarinet, b flat clarinet, baritone horn, tuba) have recorded a stunning set of pieces in an old Church in Orleans. High energy, great music and brilliantly recorded sound. Listen Sorrow of the River - Guo YaZhi - 16.99 Traditional and contemporary Chinese music performed on suona and other Chinese instruments. The suona (a traditional Chinese 'oboe' with roots in Central Asia) has a sound that is shrill, powerful and very loud. In northern China it is prominently played in festivals, military affairs and wedding processions.Here Guo YaZhi not only plays suona, but other reed instruments in ensemble with Chinese musicians including his wife He Tao on erhu, the two stringed Chinese violin. Listen Small Town Story - Zhang Ling Ling - 16.99 Popular, traditional and contemporary Chinese music performed on gu zheng (zither) with other musicians in supporting roles. This debut recording focuses on 'gu zheng' performance. The gu zheng, a plucked instrument with movable bridges that are used to tune anywhere from 15 to 25 strings, is considered the “parent instrument” of the Japanese koto, Mongolian yatga, Korean gayageum, and Vietnamese ?àn tranh. The modern gu zheng usually has 21 strings. Listen Compagne grame - Ariondessa - 17.99 With former members of noted Italian ensembles (Tre Martelli, La Ciapa Rusa, Ombra Gaja), the band is bound to be in demand. This 2009 release offers up the mix of style and musicianship one would expect from such a pedigree. This chapter in the discography of the Piedmontese folk band comprises a unique calling card card of their region, with a new and original repertoire and personal, refined arrangements.Listen Ratapuntu - Talèh - 17.99 Ratapuntu is a term used in Sicilian to indicate the seam made with the sewing machine to obtain a finished edge. A metaphor of the artistic texture of this album: just like the accurate and delicate making of a tailored piece, Talèh honours the experience with this boisterous ensemble from Ragusa, who have represented the popular tradition of their land for over ten years. Listen Napoletana - Enzo Avitabile - 17.99 On this 2009 recording, Avitabile reconnects with simplicity to the sources of sounds; work-songs and villanelle, songs that are unedited, unfiltered, etched in the cement of the city, with eyes fixed on the past and a heart that breathes in the scent of the future. Avitabile always creates new music born from an old art, full of feeling and always innovative. Listen La bella è entrata in ballo - Suonabanda - 17.99 This CD marks the return on the musical scene of one an historic bands, deeply involved in the Italian folk-revival in the 70s. They have brought back old songs that are part of Italian Apennines’ musical tradition as well as new pieces. At heart of the project are songs in celebration of the month of May. Listen Alba auba aurora aurore - Veziana - 17.99 Veziana, which means 'joyful' in medieval Occitan, is a French-Pyrenean group whose music is a crossroad of styles. From the Middle Ages to modern times, and on either side of the Pirénéus, a deep rich vein of sonorities, musical practices and emotions have undergone a process of assimilation and exchange. Veziana is also a sound in itself, characterized by ensembles of voices, viola da gamba, qanoun, harp, hurdy-gurdies, bag-pipes and percussion. Listen Tutto per amore - Andrea Capezzuoli e Compagnia - 17.99 Here he comes again, exactly a year after the publication of “Suonato coi piedi.” Their 2009 disc was designed to accompany dancing sessions but also dedicated to those who would rather wander with a musical ensemble that crosses the seas, docking at many ports, some very close and familiar, other remote and enchanting. Capezzuoli and his company of Italian musicians explore France, French Canada, England, Italy, the Mediterranean and more with voices, melodeon, organetto, saxophones and guitar. Listen Orchestra di Porta Palazzo - Orchestra di Porta Palazzo - 17.99 An album that visits music from all over the world from the unique urban viewpoint of Turino, a paradigm of a multicultural society that finds no other equivalent in Italy. Fourteen musicians, from Tunisia, Algeria, China, Cuba, Senegal, Nigeria, United States, Mauritius Islands and Italy give life to a work that is variegated and kaleidoscopic and that has the energy of a live concert and the elegance of a studio production. Listen Sahrauis: Music of Western Sahara - various - 43.99 3 CD box set with a substantial illustrated and illuminating book covers a vast range of the music from the Saharawi, a nomadic tribe in the western Sahara that is working towards independence from Morocco, currently and primarily living in Algerian camps. Fest - Fotefar and Håvard Lund - 18.99 FEST is the first CD from the folk trio Fotefar (Footprints) and clarinet player Håvard Lund. The trio is Lena Jinnegren, Bendik Lund Haanshus and Ragnhild Furebotten. Lena, from Sweden, has deep roots in rock, folk music and folk ballads. Ragnhild was nominated for the same award in 2008 for her solo CD "Endelig vals" (Finally a waltz). Bendik trained at the music conservatory in Trondheim, and plays in the group KADO and the tango music band Orangutango. Håvard is artist in residence for the cultural centre in Troms county, and now has a permanent position there as a musician, composer and arranger. He has played with the band Farmers Market, with Frode Fjellheim of Transjoik and collaborated with Trygve Seim. Føroysk Løg - Fiddling Faroes - 16.99 Poul Bjerager Christiansen and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen bring two generations of Faroese fiddling together in both traditional and contemporary settings, accompanied by organ, voices and more. Listen | Listen Duologues - Yggdrasil - 16.99 Faroese composer Kristian Blak creates new works with the Danish painter Anders Hjuler. They imagine "duologues' between ancient and modern figures from philosophy and literature (Beatrice and Dante; Munch and Nietzsche; Mandela and Dalia Lama, Lao Tse and Confucius) performed by the reknowned Nordic ensemble Yggdrasil. Reptilica Polaris - Afenginn - 16.99 the band says: "In the dark uniform western hemisphere, where rationality and stress seems to be the new religion, a small distant light is now appearing. Deeply rooted in the faith and tradition of sincere musical virtuosity and sheer madness, the new release from the acrobatic Danish deviates Afenginn, must challenge the stagnate state of every part-time depressed citizen of modern society. In a challenging unpretentious head-on collision with the conformity of well polished musical mainstream, this one-of-a-kind polyethnic contrastic Balkan-Scandinavian music blend will make every honest delirium-connoisseur go into ruptures. The music is best defined as Bela Bartok drinking schnappses of melancholic nordic klezmer with Mike Patton." 'Nuff said. Himmerlandsmelodier - Eskil Romme - 16.99 The Danish saxophone and accordion player, Eskil Romme, is a man of relatively few words, but a lot of idealism. He performs a mix of traditional and contemporary Nordic and Celtic music,a nd with his wife, he also runs an organic farm, so he knows a bit about 'roots.'. The CD features accordion player Karen Tweed (UK), the piano player Peter Rosendal (DK) and the violinist Ditte Fromseier Mortensen (DK). He is also joined by guitarist Morten Alfred Høirup, who says of Romme, "if you have a listen to the music, I am sure that you'll agree that this is a beautiful and truely original piece of work, one of the kind that stays in your head and makes you wonder." Akrobakkus - Afenginn - 16.99 fRoots says: 'Denmark's favorite madmen (the closest analogy as far as bizarre humor goes is 3 Mustaphas 3) are back with more of what's become their stock-in-trade: Balkan-influenced original music that veers from the bizarre to the sublime. The music, by mandolin player Kim Nyberg, is delightfully complex and full, bringing in not only the five-piece band but a number of guests here and there. The musicianship is wonderful throughout (just listen to clarinetist Rasmus Krøyer wail, or the solos from bassist Andrzej krejniuk) and the sense of strange fun is as palpable as on their previous discs (you have to love a band that lists "trash" among their instruments). The liner notes are as interesting and amusing as the music and that's saying a lot. They've developed into a worldclass eccentric group, even though there's little of Denmark in their sound (okay, absolutely nothing). Take them for what they are, which is wonderful, and enjoy. Pure madness' Cantors, Klezmorim And Crooners 1905-1953 - Various - 26.99 Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection features 67 selections on 3 CDs, and 42 of those tracks have never before been on CD. Includes 72-page illustrated book with track annotations by Henry Sapoznik. Trova - Marta Topferova - 17.99 The music of Marta Topferova, the Czech-born, New York-based singer and songwriter, fuses a range of Latin American musical styles and rhythms that Topferova has studied and mastered since her childhood in Prague. Described as “a leading light of the nueva cancion movement,” Topferova’s blends of folk and jazz is conveyed through her silky hypnotic vocals and her crisp cuatro and guitar playing. Trova, her latest release on World Village, continues this extraordinary artist's growth and development of her own unique and decidedly sexy Latin groove. Rembetika 4: The Postwar Years 1946-1954 - Vassilis Tsitsanis - 26.99 4 CD's, 92 tracks by this Greek musical legend, songwriter and bouzouki master Vassilis Tsitsánis, who was born in 1915 and become one of the mot prolific purveyors of "Greek outlaw blues" in recording history. Tungen ud af vinduet - Trio THG - 16.99 The trio of Andreas Tophoj on violin, Sigurd Hockings on guitar, and Michael Graubaek on violin stick their "Tongue Out of the Window" on this excellent new folk disc from Denmark. The Light-blue Tune - Anders Rosen and Jonas Akerlund - temp out of stock-18.99 Tunes from Västerdalarna, the West Dales, from Transtrand to Nås: Fiddlers Anders Rosén and Jonas Åkerlund present music from the villages along Västerdalälven, the West Dales River. Listen From Dance Halls, Forests, Gipsy Camps and Circus Tents - Wille Toors - temp out of stock-18.99 Finally back in print! Från logar, skogar, zigenarläger och cirkustält - Often called the most creative and original fiddler of Swedish tradition, the Paganini of the Great Forests presents his vision of the countryside in these 25 tunes. Mot Hagsätra - Mikael Marin and Mia Gustafsson - temp out of stock-18.99 Mia (Gustafsson) Marin is a Swedish fiddler from Värmland, in the western part of Sweden. Mikael marin is the well known member of the folk trio Vasen, as well as a respected viola soloist who has played with other ensembles from around the world. Here they perform together, in both traditional styles as well as on original tunes by themselves and friends like Antti Jarvela

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